What Teachers Need to Know about the English Language Proficiency Standards
Facilitator: Dave Coleman, ESL Teacher/Advisor, Los Angeles Unified School District
If you are and ESL teacher or a teacher from another program area with English language learners in your class, attend this webinar to interact with the guiding principles of the new English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) and consider how they apply to your teaching. See how the ELP Standards are organized and how you can provide scaffolding for your students to help them meet these rigorous requirements.
Increasing Rigor in the ESL and Basic Skills Classroom
Facilitator: Betsy Parrish, Professor/Coordinator TEFL/Adult ESL, Hamline University
Federal funding for adult education and College and Career Readiness Standards are two of the signposts pointing us towards increasing the rigor of instruction in adult education to help learners reach their education and career goals. Betsy Parrish is a national expert on increasing rigor in adult education classrooms. She has published articles on the topic and created many training materials for teachers. In this webinar, she will discuss the significance of increasing rigor, and she will provide several examples of classroom activities for embedding instruction in academic language, higher order reading and listening strategies, organizational and note-taking strategies, and critical thinking at every level from beginning to advanced. This session is appropriate for ESL, ABE and ASE instructors.
Community College 101: Support Services for Transitioning Students
Facilitator: Anna Pilloton, Director of Outreach and Community Partnerships at the College of MarinWhat do your students need to know about transferring to a community college, or from nonâcredit classes to credit? What options do they have in terms of cost? What are the different pathways they should consider for their future? What support services are available to them once they are enrolled, and how should they go about finding what they need? This webinar will take you on a guided tour of the community college resources and services.
Teaching Strategies for Different Learning Disabilities
Facilitator: Marie Doerner, Learning Disability Specialist, San Diego Community College District Continuing EducationAuditory processing disorder, dyscalculia, dyslexia: what does it all mean? Students with learning disabilities have average or above average intelligence, but some area of their learning has major deficits. This webinar reviews the most common forms of learning disabilities and suggests strategies for supporting and instructing students.
Classroom Strategies that Work for Students with Learning Disabilities
Facilitator: Marie Doerner, Learning Disability Specialist, San Diego Community College District Continuing EducationThis webinar provides adult education instructors with an overview of learning disabilities and then offers practical strategies for the classroom that will meet the needs of all learners as well as specifically addressing those with learning disabilities.
ESL & Numeracy: What's the Connection?
Facilitators: Patsy Vinogradov, Ph.D, Director of Professional Development for Adult Education in Minnesota, and Amy Vickers, M.Ed., ABE Instructional Leader and Math Specialist
How can we support English Language Learners (ELLs) as they learn numeracy? Does that happen in "math" class or in "English" class? ABE/ASE/HSE math teachers (who often teach math conceptually) and ESL teachers (who often teach math contextually, within life-skills topics) have much to learn from each other. This webinar shares a model that draws on the strengths of teachers with varied areas of expertise to better serve multilingual learners.
Teaching Reading â An Overview of the Basics
Facilitator: Guillermo Verdin, ABE Instructor, Los Angeles Unified School District Division of Adult and Career EducationWhether you are a new teacher or have been teaching for many years, you may have questions about the most effective teaching strategies for assisting adult learners to become independent readers. This webinar gives you an overview of the four areas of reading instruction, and an in-depth look at a model lesson on summarizing as an aspect of reading comprehension.
Strategies for Teaching Writing
Facilitator: Guillermo Verdin, ABE Instructor, Los Angeles Unified School District Division of Adult and Career Education
Do your learners struggle with writing assignments? Not sure how to engage them in the writing process? Wondering how to integrate direct, explicit instruction into your writing lessons? This webinar reviews the practice of direct, explicit instruction and then models teaching a lesson using that approach to teach a writing lesson using writing frames.
Making Program Changes to Address New Math Standards
Facilitators: Raine Bumatay, ABE, ASE, and ESL Program Administrator, Fresno Adult School; Evelyn Lenton, ASE Program Coordinator, Antelope Valley Adult School; and Tricia Ouellette, Academic Program Coordinator, Mt. Diablo Adult SchoolWith the introduction of GED 2014 and the College and Career Readiness Standards, math requirements for ABE and High School Equivalency learners have become more rigorous. In this webinar, three academic program coordinators discuss how they have revamped their instructional programs to better address the new standards and meet learner needs. Strategies include professional development, creating new curriculum, changing class schedules, and assigning specific math teachers. Hear how they made these changes, what the results look like so far, and lessons learned; the webinar concludes with a question-and-answer period.
Guiding ABE Learners toward College and Career Readiness
Presenter: Wendy Heard, Academic Department Chair and Site Technology Coordinator, Burbank Adult SchoolWendy Heard introduces participants to the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, and to Webb's Depth of Knowledge wheel, and provides practice in identifying which depth of knowledge various questions address, with the goal of raising the level of questions that adult students address in order to prepare them for more analytical and evaluative thinking required in postsecondary education and on the job. She also reviews how the CCR math standards are constructed and how they change the traditional approach to math instruction.